Garnet stood in shock. She was surrounded. In the entire time she served Rose and the rebellion, she had never encountered monsters quite like these. They were forced fusions, of course, but something was different about these that Garnet couldn't quite place. Then it hit her. These fusions were formed from the shards of corrupted gems. It made sense, in a morbid sort of way. Of course Homeworld would immediately shatter a corrupted gem, so they had plenty of the shards lying around. Garnet took a moment to assess these gruesome creatures. Several of them had arms sprouting out of their necks, heads coming from both ends, some even were in a constant state of reforming because there was no form they could hold. Garnet was glued to the spot.
Suddenly she heard a shout. "Garnet! We have to go!" Shouted Topaz. She had summoned two of her fatal boomerangs from her gem and was slicing the monsters as quickly as she could. Garnet knew she needed to move, but she couldn't. She started to glow, her form destabilizing. She had no control over her body because… she had no body, just an indeterminate mass of light. She calmed down and took a deep breath, remembering the lesson she had just given Stevonnie last week.
Suddenly, one of the creatures lunged at her. But she had calmed down enough that she had reformed completely, and she summoned her gauntlets. She knocked one of the creatures over to Topaz, who immediately caught on and juggled the large creature almost effortlessly with her boomerangs. Garnet then grabbed the tail (arm?) of one creature and spun it into a group of its friends. Garnet and Topaz fought valiantly for hours, until they were surrounded, back to back. They looked at each other as they realized they were doomed, and the stress was too much for Garnet. She split into Ruby and Sapphire. Everything after that was a blur. One of the creatures swiped at Topaz and she poofed. Sapphire saw as Ruby bubbled her and sent her back to the temple so she wouldn't be shattered. The last thing Sapphire remembered was looking deep into Ruby's eyes as she felt her form slip away. She struggled to hold on but poofed right as Ruby reached out to her. Then everything went black.